Kenneth Corbin

It’s official: Whitman’s out, Donahoe’s in, and eBay’s looking ahead. With the operator’s introduction of Meg Whitman, president and CEO, and John Donahoe, future president and CEO, eBay’s fourth-quarter earnings call began with a human touch. Donahoe, 46, will take the helm on March 31, after serving as eBay’s president of marketplaces for almost […]

For anyone who’s ever had to answer to a boss worried about company time being spent socializing instead of on business, IBM has come up with a simple answer: “Can’t it be both?” Today IBM unveiled its revamped Web 2.0 platform, a suite of collaborative services for enterprises to capitalize on the snowballing trends of […]

The housing market may be in freefall, but, as they say, where there’s a problem, there’s an opportunity. Real estate search service Roost.com launched publicly today, promising a more comprehensive and targeted approach to house hunting on the Internet. “We are laser-focused on getting search right,” Roost CEO Alex Chang told InternetNews.com. The site directs […]

It was bound to happen sooner or later. HBO has ended its long holdout from online video, meaning that Tony Soprano, Carrie Bradshaw and the rest of the HBO squad will soon take to the Net. The premium cable network, a unit of Time Warner, launched its HBO on Broadband service Tuesday, allowing subscribers to […]

As Yahoo continues to position a greater share of its business in the mobile space, it has formed another partnership with a major wireless carrier. On Thursday Yahoo announced that it has signed an exclusive agreement with T-Mobile to provide display advertising on the carrier’s Web ‘n’ Walk Internet service in the United Kingdom. “We […]

Instead of blocking high-bandwidth Internet traffic, why not just charge a little more for it? Time Warner Cable has confirmed that it will begin testing a tiered pricing structure for subscribers to its RoadRunner cable broadband service in Beaumont, Texas, later this year. Under the new billing model, subscribers’ monthly fees would be based on […]

The drive toward openness and interoperability in Web services is gathering steam. Yahoo today announced that it is supporting the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework, giving a ringing endorsement to the effort to build a universal login standard — which has been dismissed by some skeptics as a dreamer’s fantasy. The addition of Yahoo, which […]

Call it a photo finish. A split decision. Too close to call: The leading online tracking firms are split over which Web property garners the most traffic. According to comScore, Yahoo — perennially ranked as the most visited destination on the Web — held onto its lead in December, staving off surging Google for at […]

When most people think of pairing ads with search queries, one company invariably springs to mind. But don’t try telling that to Proximic. Founded in October around a novel contextual-matching technology, the privately funded ad network on Wednesday announced that it has signed ad-syndication deals with Yahoo Shopping Network and eBay’s Shopping.com. The two agreements […]

Amazon’s found a new partner in its quest to overtake iTunes in the digital-music arena. Pepsi-Cola and the Internet’s largest retailer have teamed up in a promotion to give away as many as 1 billion songs from Amazon MP3, the online music store launched in September. Unlike iTunes, the Amazon MP3 store only sells songs […]

With another nail in the coffin, are the record labels finally ready to lay digital rights management (DRM) to rest? Amazon.com announced yesterday that later this month, it will begin selling downloads of MP3s from Sony BMG with no DRM restrictions. With the addition of Sony, which had been the last holdout among the four […]

Google Maps just got a little bit smarter. The Weather Channel Interactive, which owns weather.com, today announced a mapplet that makes weather information available on Google Maps. Google also enlisted the Weather Channel to provide weather conditions, forecasts and radar to its Google Earth satellite-imaging service. The Weather Channel provides an overhead view of sky […]